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Performance Evaluation of Vehicle Restraint Systems in the Context of Design and Installation
(2021 , Article)
Vehicle Restraint Systems (VRS), a necessary component of the road design, are widely implemented by transport authorities to protect vehicles from severe incidents, mainly colliding to the roadside as well as median ...
Traffic Impact Assessment for the Stadiums Hosting FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar: A Case Study
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Springer
, 2021 , Article)
The State of Qatar has made extensive preparation to successfully host the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup, a tournament that will be held for the first time in the Middle East and the North Africa region. In preparation for ...
Aerial ropeway system - feasibility study in Doha, Qatar
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Canadian Science Publishing
, 2021 , Article)
Aerial ropeway systems, also called gondolas and aerial cable cars, are amongst driverless transportation modes, which are progressively drawing the attention in promoting tourism. Aerial ropeway systems have been operated ...
Aerial ropeway system - feasibility study in Doha, Qatar
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Canadian Science Publishing
, 2021 , Article)
Aerial ropeway systems, also called gondolas and aerial cable cars, are amongst driverless transportation modes, which are progressively drawing attention in promoting tourism. Aerial ropeway systems have been operated in ...
Blue collar laborers’ travel pattern recognition: Machine learning classifier approach
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
This paper proposes a pattern recognition model to develop clusters of homogenous activities for blue-collar workers in the State of Qatar. The activity-based data from the travel diary of 1051 blue-collar workers collected ...
Optical pavement treatments and their impact on speed and lateral position at transition zones: A driving simulator study
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Transition zones are a road section where posted speed drops from higher to lower limits. Due to the sudden changes in posted speed limits and road environment, drivers usually do not adapt to the posted speed limits and ...
Relating reactive and proactive aggression to trait driving anger in young and adult males: A pilot study using explicit and implicit measures
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article)
Driving anger and aggressive driving are main contributors to crashes, especially among young males. Trait driving anger is context-specific and unique from other forms of anger. It is necessary to understand the mechanisms ...
Modelling speed behaviour in rural highways: Safety analysis of driving under adverse road-weather conditions
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PLOS
, 2021 , Article)
This study proposes a methodical approach to model desired speed distributions under different road-weather and traffic conditions followed by identification of road-weather conditions with potentially higher safety risks ...
Quantifying the impact of COVID–19 preventive measures on traffic in the State of Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Ever since the beginning of 2020, the mobility of people and goods all over the world has been extremely limited as a result of movement restrictions imposed by local authorities as part of several other efforts to stop ...
Does Pedestrian Penalty Affect Pedestrian Behavior? A Case of State of Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Crashes involving pedestrians are a major concern for authorities in many developed and developing countries. To refrain pedestrians from illegal or unsafe road behavior, authorities introduced three pedestrian penalties ...